Valhalla - "thoughtful, original, beautiful", The Outdoor Times
Tony O'Donnell, editor of The Outdoor Times took a sneak peek ahead of our screening of one of the autumn's most eagerly anticipated adventure sports films:
"Valhalla isn’t so much a film about skiing as a film with skiing in it. It’s an action film, and it’s a love story...a bold, pioneering film. The powder porn is present and correct, of course, and aficionados will be well pleased with that facet of Valhalla, but there is much else to enjoy in this thoughtful, original and beautiful film. If there is a bar to be raised in the genre of ski film, it is now that bit higher." Read more...
You can also read BAF and ShAFF Festival Director Matt Heason's take on the film on our blog.
"I've written this statement before, but I watch a lot of adventure films as part of my job. Usually between two and three hundred each year, possibly more. So it take something special to stand out from the crowd and raise the standard. Every year however, one or two films come along that do just this. Last week I was lucky enough to watch a screener of Valhalla."
"I've loved every single film that Sweetgrass have produced. I met the producer on a trip out to Banff a few years back and he's an ordinary looking fellow, talks about the usual stuff, drinks the usual drinks and eats the usual food. But put him in charge of a ski film and he does some quite unusual things. His name is Nick Waggoner, and I don't for one second think that he is the sole captain in charge of the ship that is Sweetgrass, but he's definitely pulling the strings so I'm going to single him out for some praise."
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